to rub salt in the wound
[rub] salt (in|into) {one's} wounds
to rub salt in the wound
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to make a difficult or painful situation even worse for someone
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disapproving
idiom
informal
Exempel
To hold them to a standard that discriminatory marriage bans made impossible to meet rubs salt in the wound of their loss.
